cousinry

[ kuhz-uhn-ree ]

noun

, plural cous·in·ries.

1. cousins or relatives collectively.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cousinry¹

First recorded in 1835–45; cousin + -ry

Example Sentences

If bouncing overstimulated kids from the family truckster to lumpy mattresses and back again doesn’t bond them to the cousinry, then take your plans apart.

From Seattle Times

If bouncing overstimulated kids from the family truckster to lumpy mattresses and back again doesn’t bond them to the cousinry, then take your plans apart.

From Washington Post

He was a Cockney of the Cockneys, born right beneath Bow Bells themselves; but when you come to gather the threads of his connections, you seem indeed to “Take all England up,” jumping at once to the heart of Westmoreland fells, and traversing every shire in England and Wales for his cousinry.

From Project Gutenberg

As in the case of its cousinry a-land, the bladderwort at its leisure dines upon its prey.

From Project Gutenberg

Among his early friends was Mr. Henry Cromwell, one of the cousinry of the Protector's family: he was a bachelor, and spent most of his time in London; he had some pretensions to scholarship and literature, having translated several of Ovid's Elegies, for Tonson's Miscellany.

From Project Gutenberg